All they could do was accentuate the positives. Failings were glossed over,
dissent was dismissed and straws desperately clutched at.

For Paul Lambert and David Moyes the stakes are too high to allow negativity
to creep in, even after a breathless 3-3 draw had revealed a litany of
limitations that could prevent both Aston Villa and Everton achieving their
objectives.

The rival managers knew that this was no time for a public autopsy, not when
opening up an insane game, even by Barclays Premier League standards, would
only farther expose the shortcomings of their teams. Instead, they acted as
if